assemblage artist research

Julia Couzens

Julia Couzens explores the relationship between craft, abstract painting, and sculpture. She emphasises the imperfectly perfect flaws of scrap fabrics through wrapping, stretching, stitching, and bundling fabrics from used clothing or goods. They then become an object full of memories and history as these materials may have come from discarded, damaged, worn and used objects/clothing. Couzen’s work operates as an assemblage as we can clearly see the ways different materials are combined. Through the many strings and stitches which secures the textiles , these fabrics from many different sources, come together as a single sculpture. I was heavily influences by Couzens work and tried to use the verb of securing in my material assemblages. Except I tried it with random objects around me such as a stapler, a gnome, camera, etc. This reminds me of packing a suitcase. We have to fit so many important things in our everyday into a tiny space with almost no spare space at all. Much like this, Couzen is able to secure the history and memories filled in these scrap fabrics into a small, confined panel.

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Armand Fernandez

Armand Fernandez is influences by the philosophies of Dadaism and found-object style sculptures stating “I maintain that the expression of junk and objects has an intrinsic value, and I see no need to look for aesthetic forms in them and to adapt them to the colors of the palette,”. His sculptures consist of displaying objects in plexiglass and using resin to set objects in a panel-like box. I’m intrigued with the fact that he also presents strewn garbage which he picked up in Paris. By putting the trash in a confined box, he creates a still-life of streets of Paris which are scattered with litter and garbage. His work operates as an assemblage as he uses the everyday as a source of materials and objects. Fernandez is able to reflect on the realities of society by adopting the still-life painting style into a sculptural manner.

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Jessica Stockholder

Jessica Stockholder’s works use visually stricking colour compositions and structures through assembling a variety of objects such as toys, laundry baskets, curtains, heat lamps, fans, yarn, newspaper, bowling balls, automobiles and so on. Stockholder explores the aesthetic values of these objects while also expressing a narrative. She utilises consumer products to build a relationship between painting ans sculpture. She uses paint to emphasise to the energetic colour pallets on these plastic objects. Stockholder shows the true nature of an assemblage. She combines recognisable objects into a compositions that is visually satisying. By examining close, we can also see the painting elements ant the way these recognisable objects come together.

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